Comet STEM Resources

Minecraft Education Edition is a great educational tool that is free for schools! Students can enjoy playing Minecraft while learning a variety of lessons. This map was made as a way to reinforce the lessons of coding in Minecraft Education. The map guides students through a haunted castle where they must solve puzzles using coding to proceed and reach the end. Has 12 puzzles students must solve in order to complete allowing them to upgrade their equipment to fight off the various monsters throu

Lesson 3 introduces sound as a new category of communication in Scratch. By this point in the unit, students have already learned that coding is a language system that requires clarity, structure, and specificity. They understand that Motion blocks control what a sprite does, and Looks blocks control how a sprite appears or communicates visually. This lesson builds on those ideas by introducing auditory communication. Sound is particularly important to address carefully because humans often

Lesson 2 continues to frame coding as a language system rather than a technical skill. In Lesson 1, students learned that Motion blocks function like action verbs—they tell a sprite what to do. In this lesson, students are introduced to Looks blocks as the part of the Scratch language that controls description, communication, and appearance. The instructional goal is not for students to memorize block names or use Scratch independently yet. Instead, the goal is for students to understand that

Minecraft Education Edition is a great educational tool that is free for schools! Students can enjoy playing Minecraft while learning a variety of lessons. This map was made as a way to reinforce the lessons of coding in Minecraft Education. The map allows for students to get together in groups of 4 and practice coding together. When entering the map students will pick a color and begin their adventure. Students must work together and use their coding skills to progress through the level by maki

Coding Lesson with Scratch focused on Upper Elementary grades. This lesson introduces motion blocks with an emphasis on the importance of language and the meaning of words in coding. This includes a lesson plan, teacher instruction guide, and student worksheet for concept understanding.

Coding is an amazing and fun skill that has so creates so many possibilities for students. With the free website Scratch.mit.edu it is now easy to introduce kids of most grades to coding. While many find coding intimidating and scary, the lessons here introduce the idea in a very easy way. The type of coding introduced uses a language called Blockley which makes coding very simple for students of all ages. If your students can play with Legos they can use Blockley. The document you will receive

*While this Scratch Coding Lesson can be completed without any knowledge or experience with Scratch it is recommended to first teach my "STEM: Introduction to Coding with Scratch”, which is also for sale in my store, or at least become familiar with Scratch in order to receive the best results from students.This Scratch lesson is a great starter lesson for beginning coders who want to make their first game. The lesson was designed so that it can be printed and given to students to follow and com

Minecraft Education Edition is a great educational tool that is free for schools! Students can enjoy playing Minecraft while learning a variety of lessons. This map was made as a way to reinforce the lessons of coding in Minecraft Education. Let your students learn the art of coding while having fun! Simply download the zip and unzip it then import the map into Minecraft and all done!

This is a free sample lesson for teaching Coding with Scratch. If you are unfamiliar with Scratch and how to use or set it up consider purchasing my Coding with Scratch Starter. It will walk you through everything you need to know includes 8 lessons with lesson plans.